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...with much more sensitivity to modern trends than his predecessor, Maurice Stans, who later became Nixon's campaign treasurer. Indeed, the 46-year-old Peterson, who dresses in dark suits augmented by flashy ties, square-toed shoes and gold-rimmed glasses, seems more than just one generation more mod than the 64-year-old Stans. Stans took the business side in almost every dispute; among other things, he decried tough anti-pollution regulations and defended the clubbing of Alaskan seals...
Nijinsky is Béjart's most ostentatious work to date. In it his flair for the spectacular, the mod and the grotesque is overwhelming, in ways that admittedly may whelm some more than others. Equipped with enough stage runways for a good suburban airport, adorned ominously by the obligatory -or so it seems these days-cross of Calvary, Nijinsky is essentially an old-fashioned allegory play dolled up for the stoned age. Its recounting of the life of the great Russian dancer is set to a schizoid musical score (electronics by Pierre Henry, schmalz by Tchaikovsky...
Neither side is certain which way the votes will fall in a battle of the old and the new politics-the faintly mod liberal Republican against the gladhanding, bread-and-butter Democrat. Washington is normally Democratic, which gives Rosellini an advantage in his effort to justify his Seattle telephone-directory business listing: "Albert D. Rosellini, Gov atty...
...century-oriented Bolshoi and Kirov companies. Indeed, he offered some of the company's most abstract works, like his Violin Concerto (set to Stravinsky) and Jerome Robbins' Goldberg Variations (Bach), dances that eschew decor, spectacle and story line in favor of balanced and unbalanced compositions that are mod, sexy and athletic. The results were varied. The Georgians in their sunny Italianate capital, Tbilisi, responded more enthusiastically to those works than ballet-goers in Kiev and Leningrad. But more traditional Balanchine ballets like Symphony in C (Bizet) caught on at every stop. Balanchine's Who Cares? (Gershwin...
...none of the network's news teams were the real winners. At hours when NBC and CBS were broadcasting the convention, ABC was cornering a greater share of the audience than either with reruns of series like Marcus Welby (38%) and Mod Squad (30%). Even a feeble sitcom like The Super attracted 27%. Network coverage of the Republican Convention later this month will once again be furiously competitive. But public taste being what it is, Round 2, like Round 1, will be a battle only for the runner-up positions...